Michael Slack
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About Michael Slack
Michael L. (Mike) Slack is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Slack Davis, where he focuses on the most complex and demanding areas of civil litigation, including aviation accidents and product liability cases against major corporations. A licensed pilot and former NASA senior aerospace engineer, Mike brings technical depth to catastrophic-injury litigation that few trial lawyers can match. His legal career spans more than 36 years and hundreds of lawsuits arising from catastrophic injuries and deaths caused by unsafe products or practices. For most of that time he has concentrated on aviation crashes, handling cases across every segment of the industry from major airline disasters to small general-aviation aircraft, in state and federal courts in 36 states.
Before entering law, Mike worked on the Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle programs at NASA and received special agency recognition for his contributions. He is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Aviation Law and Personal Injury Trial Law, and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate. In 2002, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics named him an Associate Fellow, a rare distinction for an attorney. He has also been honored with the Distinguished Aerospace Engineer Alumni Award by Texas A&M University.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Roughly 700,000 Texas auto insurance policyholders shared a $52 million class settlement after a federal lawsuit showed Farmers Group charged long-term customers higher premiums than new customers for coverage that was functionally identical.
A mother and her two toddler daughters, each diagnosed with PTSD after surviving the American Airlines Flight 1420 runway crash in Little Rock, won a $3.35 million jury verdict that the Eighth Circuit affirmed in full.
Michael Slack secured a confidential settlement against Robinson Helicopter after defective aluminum fuel tanks on an R-44 ruptured in a 2006 Fredericksburg, Texas crash and fire that killed the pilot and two passengers, with the deal requiring Robinson to retrofit its entire fleet with crash-resistant bladder tanks.
After two jury trials and years of appeals, the family of a New Mexico State Police officer killed in a 2001 air-ambulance helicopter crash won a wrongful-death verdict against the hospital that hired the operator without adequately vetting its fitness.
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